Another scandal in the Obama regime.
CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks.
The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department’s security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of misconduct on the part of the 70,000 State Department employees worldwide.
……according to an internal State Department Inspector General’s memo, several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off. The memo obtained by CBS News cited eight specific examples. Among them: allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut “engaged in sexual assaults” on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail “engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries” — a problem the report says was “endemic.”
The memo also reveals details about an “underground drug ring” was operating near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and supplied State Department security contractors with drugs.
Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator with the State Department’s internal watchdog agency, the Inspector General, told Miller, “We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases.”
……In such cases, DSS agents told the Inspector General’s investigators that senior State Department officials told them to back off, a charge that Fedenisn says is “very” upsetting.
“We were very upset. We expect to see influence, but the degree to which that influence existed and how high up it went, was very disturbing,” she said.
In one specific and striking cover-up, State Department agents told the Inspector General they were told to stop investigating the case of a U.S. Ambassador who held a sensitive diplomatic post and was suspected of patronizing prostitutes in a public park.
The State Department Inspector General’s memo refers to the 2011 investigation into an ambassador who “routinely ditched … his protective security detail” and inspectors suspect this was in order to “solicit sexual favors from prostitutes.”
Prostitution and drugs on the taxpayer’s dime. Your government at work.
Sources told CBS News that after the allegations surfaced, the ambassador was called to Washington, D.C. to meet with Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy, but was permitted to return to his post.
Patrick Kennedy. Now there’s a fine example of competence and leadership.
Fedenisn says “hostile intelligence services” allow such behavior to continue. “I would be very surprised if some of those entities were not aware of the activities,” she said. “So yes, it presents a serious risk to the United States government.”
I was an Intelligence Analyst during my service in the Army. I often briefed Soldiers on security issues; operational security, physical security, information security, computer security, and espionage. One of the areas I always covered was the acronym M.I.S.E. It stood for Money, Ideology, Sex, and Ego. Simply put, those are common human frailties that make some people susceptible to targeting by hostile foreign entities for the purpose of soliciting classified information. The State Department employees covered at least 3 out of 4.
The growing list of Obama regime scandals:
IRS targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups
NSA gathering private emails and phone records of innocent Americans
DOJ’s selective prosecution of information leaks
Obama leaks classified information about SEAL’s Bin Laden mission
Obama and Holder’s Fast and Furious gunrunning crimes
Just think, he’s still got three and a half years.